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OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION SEÑORIO DE ALOHA PRESIDENTS CIRCULAR Dear Owners, Re - NRA - Number of Registration of Accommodation (Accommodation Registration Number) As you are aware, the association of owners approved the use of apartments for short-term rentals. This enables the following 2-step process: 1) TOURIST LICENCE - VUT (issued by the Junta de Andalucia). If you are already in possession of a VUT, you can go to step 2. If you are not in possession of a VUT, you need approval from the association of owners (2/3rd majority vote) to start your application. Approval can be done via an Annual General Meeting/Extraordinary General Meeting, so in the first instance, you should contact Adenjo. When you are the holder of a VUT, even if you inherited it when you acquired your apartment, your Community Fees will be subject to an increase of 10% as approved at the Extraordinary General Meeting. 2) When in possession of a VUT, you then need to apply for an NRA - (Accommodation Registration Number - issued by the Marbella Registrar - details online). In order not to be in reach of the Community Rules, you should start this process by completing Form A ‘Declaration of Apartment Use’ located at https://forms.gle/SNasLUNbDVr3mvJ2A You are recommended to read Article 5.3 Community Regulations covering Short-term rental properties for further information. In particular, submission of Form A will place you on the Community’s public register which will be available for consultation to the local NRA Registrar for the purposes of determining whether to issue/revoke an NRA or for any other similar purpose. Following the Extraordinary General Meeting approval, the implementation process is as follows: • Following circulation of the Extraordinary General Meeting Minutes, a period of 30 days must pass to allow for any absentee vote. • Once this period has elapsed, Adenjo must issue a certificate confirming that the deadline has passed, as well as make the corresponding entry in the minutes book. • The President will then go to a notary to formalize the resolution. • After that, the documentation is submitted to the Land Registry to amend and register the new article. This process can also take time depending on the Registry’s workload; it is not immediate. We hope the process will complete by the end of May, and owners can submit their applications. In the meantime, you are politely reminded that the penalties for non-compliance with the NRA requirements are significant. With regards John Riley